“Our family will continue to become the ancestors of our future children and grandchildren. We will lay the path of basket knowledge for those who want to pick up the love of weaving.” To continue NYFA’s 30th anniversary interview series we interviewed recent Fellow in Folk/Traditional Arts, Carrie Hill. Carrie weaves traditional Mohawk baskets that are…
“Think of yourself as a self-contained business and work to acquire the skills that will sustain your work financially.” In continuing with our ongoing series of blog posts dedicated to the exceptional arts advocates who operate behind the scenes here at NYFA, we are proud to introduce one of our newest board members, performance artist…
“My mantra is ‘I am therefore I art.” This year marks the 30th Anniversary of NYFA’s Artists’ Fellowship Program. Over the course of this celebration, we will be posting interviews with various fellows from the past three decades. This month we bring you four-time fellowship recipient Pat Oleszko who was kind enough to write to…
See NYFA’s exhibition celebrating 30 years of the Artists’ Fellowships Program Triacontagon: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Artists’ Fellowship Program is an exhibition featuring 43 Fellows that is now on view at Westbeth Gallery until August 30, 2015. Technically a triacontagon is a thirty-sided star polygon. Although it is a star in its geometric…
The goal is to integrate, within even the most urban environments, a powerful collective experience of light On Thursday August 13 NYFA continues its 30th Anniversary celebration with the opening of Triacontagon: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Artists’ Fellowship Program. To highlight Triacontagon, exhibiting artist and NYFA Fellow in Crafts ‘90 James Carpenter spoke to…
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